Cleveland Museum of Art
Varaha, Boar Incarnation of Vishnu
- Date
- 700–800s
- Medium
- sandstone
- Culture
- Central India, probably Madhya Pradesh
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The Hindu god Vishnu took the form of a boar to rescue his wife Bhu (Earth in Sanskrit) from the bottom of the primordial ocean, where she had been hidden by a demon. Here shown with the head of a boar and the powerful lunging body of a warrior, Varaha holds out one of his four elbows as a seat for the earth goddess who he has rescued. In his two left hands, he hold the conch and discus.
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